Veep: The Complete Sixth Season

The sixth season of HBO's savage satire of American politics follows Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)—the first female vice president, and, briefly, president—as she adjusts to life outside of elected office. Still stinging from an election loss that saw another woman go down in history as the first elected female president, Selina embarks on writing her memoirs and creating her Presidential Library while living on an allowance from her daughter Catherine (Sarah Sutherland), who is now married to Selina's former Secret Service bodyguard (Clea DuVall). While Selina endures the indignities of being treated without the respect she so desires, her former assistant Amy Brookheimer (Anna Chlumsky) grows exasperated as a hardball player with a softball crew running her fiancé's congressional election campaign, staffer Dan Egan (Reid Scott) battles network egos and media politics as co-host of a popular morning show, and former advisors Ben (Kevin Dunn) and Kent (Gary Cole) are miserable working for the incompetent and self-aggrandizing congressman Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons). Winner of multiple Emmy awards, including Outstanding Comedy (its third win) and Lead Actress (Louis-Dreyfus's sixth win in a row), Veep continues to serve up a portrait of American party politics that would be dispiriting if it wasn't so funny (and at least the displays of ego and insensitivity here are fictional). Compiling all 10 episodes from the 2017 sixth season, extras include cast and crew episode commentaries. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)